# Ionic setup sass not work

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-setup-sass-not-work/33145>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [September 24, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-setup-sass-not-work/33145 "2015-09-24T16:56:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![DenniLa2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/dennila2/32/84038_2.png) [@DenniLa2](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/DenniLa2)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-setup-sass-not-work/33145/1 "2015-09-24T16:56:58Z")

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Hello!  
I update nodejs to current version (4.1.1) and ionic-start new project.  
Log of ionic setup sass

```
Mac-Pro-Denni:pikad denniadam$ ionic setup sass
npmnpm WARN package.json pikadating@1.0.0 No README data
npm WARN package.json pikadating@1.0.0 No license field.
npm WARN deprecated pangyp@2.3.2: use node-gyp@3+, it does all the things

> node-sass@2.1.1 install /Volumes/MacData2/Dev/ionic/PikaD/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

Can not download file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sass/node-sass-binaries/v2.1.1/darwin-x64-node-4.1/binding.node

> node-sass@2.1.1 postinstall /Volumes/MacData2/Dev/ionic/PikaD/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

CXX(target) Release/obj.target/binding/src/binding.o
In file included from ../src/binding.cpp:1:
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:324:27: error: redefinition of 'NanEnsureHandleOrPersistent'
NAN_INLINE v8::Local<T> NanEnsureHandleOrPersistent(const v8::Local<T> &val) {
                      ^
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:319:17: note: previous definition is here
  v8::Handle<T> NanEnsureHandleOrPersistent(const v8::Handle<T> &val) {
                ^
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:344:27: error: redefinition of 'NanEnsureLocal'
NAN_INLINE v8::Local<T> NanEnsureLocal(const v8::Handle<T> &val) {
                      ^
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:334:27: note: previous definition is here
  NAN_INLINE v8::Local<T> NanEnsureLocal(const v8::Local<T> &val) {
                      ^
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:757:13: error: no member named 'smalloc' in namespace 'node'
, node::smalloc::FreeCallback callback
  ~~~~~~ ^
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:768:12: error: no matching function for call to 'New'
return node::Buffer::New(v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), data, size);
       ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

Error running gulp sass

Exception with (CLI v1.6.4)

Your system information:
Cordova CLI: 5.0.0
Gulp version: CLI version 3.9.0
Gulp local: Local version 3.9.0
Ionic Version: 1.1.0
Ionic CLI Version: 1.6.4
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.3.8
ios-deploy version: Not installed
ios-sim version: 4.1.1 
OS: Mac OS X Yosemite
Node Version: v4.1.1
Xcode version: Xcode 7.0 Build version 7A220 

```

Help me pls!

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**Author:** ![DenniLa2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/dennila2/32/84038_2.png) [@DenniLa2](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/DenniLa2)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-setup-sass-not-work/33145/2 "2015-09-24T18:09:16Z")

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1. Rename/delete folder node\_modules in project folder

2. In file project\_name/package.json  
rewrite

3 . Run again

```
ionic setup sass

```

GL!

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**Author:** ![fabrulana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/fabrulana/32/91658_2.png) [@fabrulana](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/fabrulana)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-setup-sass-not-work/33145/3 "2015-09-25T15:59:22Z")

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Thanks this worked for my error - which was a bit different.  
Except that before running ‘ionic setup sass’ again I had to run ‘npm install gulp-sass’ as well.